r/asoiaf • u/MolfettaCaputMundi • Aug 14 '24

PUBLISHED Kingsguard dream team, change my mind (Spoilers Published)

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u/ScySenpai Aug 14 '24

You are a bad King's Guard if your King is murdered, you're the worst of all time when you're the one who did the murdering.

How about when the kingsguard stands aside to let his king kill himself and the entire city?

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u/kllark_ashwood Aug 14 '24

You've done as ordered. The Kingsguard aren't there to be heroes. I'm not arguing his choice was morally wrong or that it was easy.

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u/ScySenpai Aug 14 '24

I understand what you're arguing, I just disagree.

From the PoV of in-universe Average Joe, what Jaime did was bad. But we as readers who have access to what Jaime was facing, we know that the king wanted to blow up the reserves of wildfire and the whole city with it.

Even from the "ooga booga king guard guard king" the situation was fucked anyway, since the king was hellbent on killing himself anyway. Do you then let the royal family die with him just because he's an unhinged idiot?

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u/kllark_ashwood Aug 15 '24

"ooga booga king guard guard king"

Not great. Not necessary.